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Feb. 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I see that the uh the General Motors Board of Directors is conducting hearings today into what's going on at uh, as Henry Waxman says, Toyota.
Uh that's how he pronounced it, Toyota.
Um, yeah, it's the General Motors Board, it's the it's the Waxman Committee, he's the general secretary.
Well I want to know is where are the hearings on the climate change fraud?
You talk about costing a whole lot of money and really endangering people.
Where are the hearings on climate change fraud?
Great to have you.
I know we've got the Barbara Boxers holding some hearings today, supposedly about that.
We've got a couple sound bites from uh from Boxer and James Inhoff, who wants Gore to come back up because everything in his movies a lie now.
Inhoff wants Gore to come back up and uh answer some questions about this.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB network, Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
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Columbus Ohio.
I'm tired of rallies.
I want to fight.
So said Tim Burga, operations director of the Ohio AFL CIO addressing the hundreds who had braved the cold on February 20th to attend a pass it now rally for health care reform at the SEIU local 1199 Hall here.
In other words, Obama's number one supporters showed up, these union thugs, and they said we want to fight.
We don't want any more rallies, we don't want any more speeches.
We want to fight.
There was a sense of real urgency in the hall as speaker after speaker pounded on the point.
Um that we now have six weeks to win the fight.
Our people have been fighting since the Truman administration.
Health care for all.
Exactly what I told you yesterday.
It's the Lord of the Rings being played out right before our very eyes.
Becky Williams, president of SIU SEIU 1199, interrupted by loud cheers as she led off the rally, telling the crowd we have three things to tell the administration and a majority in Congress.
One, we worked for and voted for change last year.
That means actually changing uh what was there when you got there, too.
We need for you to lead with courage, not be intimidated by Fox News and the teabaggers, and three, don't be fooled by lies.
If you do these things will be with you.
Sixty-six percent of Americans, according to polls demanding health care reform be passed.
That's uh wrong number, Union thugs.
But look where we get the information from the Communist Party USA.
You don't get this from the state control media.
You get this from the Communist Party USA.
And they're out there.
Let me find I mean uh should have let me check something.
We've got a soundbite here.
Um yeah, grab audio soundbite number thirteen.
More union thug stuff here.
This is last Friday in Los Angeles at the SEIU offices.
Service employees international union, the same bunch of thugs demanding a fight, no more rallies in Ohio on the 20th of February.
This is a reform immigration for America rally.
Representative Xavier Bessera of Democrat California is in attendance, and an unidentified man, unidentified female uh rally leader have this exchange about how to start the meeting.
Can we start this meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance?
No, I'm serious, Congressman.
Shouldn't we say the Pledge of Allegiance if we all want to be citizens?
Wouldn't that be appropriate to say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Okay, let's do that.
Can everybody stand?
I'm happily happy to lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
Let's go for it.
Um, if you see this, the room breaks out uh in in laughter, and this this this Congressman, Xavier Bacera, is laughing along with the rest of the crowd uh at the thought of reciting a pledge of allegiance.
They then say okay, and they and the and they do it, but uh and since we talked about it, you may as well go to uh we'll see.
Uh yeah, sound bites we'll do 14 here through 17.
This is Boxer Inhoff.
Uh this morning in Washington, Senate uh Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, James Inhoff said this.
One of the largest newspapers over there said this is the most significant scientific scandal of our generation.
Yet global warming alarmism has been sold on the very Notion uh that uh that man-made greenhouse gases are causing environmental catastrophes, Himalayan uh the glaciers melting and all that stuff.
But now we know there's no objective basis for these claims that I just talked about.
The Obama administration then is moving ahead with a massive job killing tax for no good reason.
The minority report shows the world's leading climate scientists acting like political scientists.
We got a problem up there.
Every everybody sounds like they're underwater uh with our sound bars.
We're just doing this on purpose today, uh, to cause more attention to be focused on the sound bites.
I haven't gotten an answer on this yet.
Well, we'll just keep playing them and it well.
Okay, oh, it's not our equipment, it's a lousy copy, I'm told.
Uh well, I don't need I don't need another copy here.
I mean, I just my my uh I'm I'm very attuned to the way people sound, and I know that the Senate's not doing his hearing underwater with scuba tanks.
Uh all right, here's Boxer now.
This is Boxer, a portion of her remarks.
In my opening statement, I didn't quote one international scientist or IPCC.
I quoted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA.
I quoted NASA.
I think they know what they're talking about, and the triple A, in this case, the American Association of the Advancement of Science, we've been keeping records for 130 years, and we've had the warmest decade in that time.
And we can track the ice.
So two things I wanted to dispel.
We are quoting the American scientific community here, and we are talking about facts on the ground.
What's been observed over the last decade?
Because climate change is about decade to decade, not day to day.
Right.
And there's been a decade and a half of no warming uh since 1995.
Uh and the the you know NOAA is is as corrupt as the Union or the IPCC is, NOAA is as corrupt, and James Hansen at NASA is as corrupt as Phil Jones.
They're all it's it's a worldwide cabal.
So this is their out now.
This is their out.
Oh, we're not relying on those frauds over there in Great Britain.
No, no, no.
We're we're relying on the U American frauds.
Uh because there are frauds, and uh so that's how we're gonna we're gonna go patriotic on this.
Our fraud scientists, but they're Americans.
So that's who we're listening to.
We're not listening to the other guys.
Uh let's go back.
October 29th, 2007, Boxer using day-to-day observations to say global warming was happening.
He also remarked that the most optimistic climate models for the second half of the century suggest that 30 to 70 percent of the snowpack will disappear.
Now no wonder we have people visiting our offices who are just already hurting from the recreation industry in this nation.
They see what's happening, they see the handwriting on the wall.
We have to act.
Yeah.
So there she is using day-to-day uh activity to uh cite uh global warming as something that is happening.
And March nineteenth of last year, here she is quoting uh the this fraudulent corrupt uh UN group, the IPCC.
Looking at the United States of America, the IPCC clearly warned that unchecked global warming will lead to reduced snowpack in the Western Mountains, critically reducing access to water, which is our lifeblood.
Okay, so last year, the IPCC was gold.
That was the gold standard.
Now screw the IPCC.
No, no, no.
We're not relying on them.
We're relying on Americans.
Inhoff's got them here by the shorts, folks, and everything, but they're not going to give this up.
I mean, this this is a political issue to them.
Every bit as important as so-called health care reform is.
By the way, one more on this.
This is this morning at the same Senate committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee.
And by the way, um I didn't notice Boxer sounding underwater in those two bites.
But yeah.
But the bites that are coming from today clearly show Boxer and Inhoff, and uh we'll find out here Lisa Jackson in a second if she's underwater, uh, wouldn't we're so much in debt.
Hell, everybody's underwater, underwater in their houses.
Washington's underwater in their jobs, their job performance.
Anyway, here's the EPA director, Lisa Jackson, and she's she's uh, you know, far left wing fringe activist.
And Inhoff says To her, uh, one of your quotes was at the EPA view that, quote, the scientific assessments of the IPCC represent the best reference material for determining the general state of knowledge on the scientific and technical issues of climate science.
Do you uh you still agree with that?
I think it's out of context, Senator.
Well, the IPCC is certainly important.
It represents multiple lines of evidence and much data.
Okay, do you still believe, as you've stated before, that the IPCC is the gold standard for climate change science?
The primary focus of the endangerment finding was on climate threat risk in this country.
The information on the glaciers and other things doesn't weaken or undermine the science that EPA review to look at the endangerment to human health and welfare.
Why should it?
Why why should news that's been pro proven to be fraud have any effect on our what we're doing here?
Just the Himalayas screw the Himalayas, the Himalayas aren't here.
Uh so we don't care about the Himalayas now.
And the news just keeps I mean every day.
You know, you could assign.
We we could assign a reporter, a single reporter to virtually every cabinet department and every czar in this administration to follow them every day, and we still could not keep up with their efforts to corrupt this country.
We could not keep up with it.
And the drive-by medias have long since given up trying to uh hold these people accountable.
The number of mass layoffs, this is Reuters.
The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers edged up in January as manufacturers stepped up job cuts data showed today.
Massive layoffs by U.S. employers.
Edged up in January.
But but but but but but all of these new jobs, stimulus created.
Um remember those two babes that we had on CNN about some months ago.
So, oh yeah, uh uh good news in the economy, it's it's really really coming.
Mass layoffs continue.
Consumer confidence is at its lowest since 1983.
That is 27 years ago.
The conference board measures this and consumer conference at its lowest since 1983.
Wall Street bonuses, though, up 17%.
This is from the Associated Press.
Wall Street bonuses were up 17% to over 20 billion in 2009.
The year taxpay now stick with me on this, folks.
I'm gonna go a different direction that you might think.
I'm just giving you the facts now in the story.
20 billion dollars, 17 percent.
Bonuses were up that much in 2009, that's the year taxpayers bailed out the financial sector after its meltdown.
Uh total compensation at the largest securities firms grew beyond that figure.
Profits could surpass what he calls an unprecedented $55 billion last year.
That's nearly three times Wall Street's record increase, a rate of growth that is boosted in part by the record losses in 08 of nearly 43 billion.
Now, don't worry, for there's a butt coming here from AP, and here it is.
But for most Americans, these huge Americans, the bonuses are a bitter pill, and they're hard to comprehend.
Taxpayers bailed them out, and now they're back making money while many New York families are still struggling to make ends meet.
The uh MTA laying off a thousand more workers in New York, San Francisco laying off close to a thousand teachers, the city and state layoffs predicted by me continue to unfold right before our very eyes.
And yet here's Wall Street with her bonuses up 17 percent.
Now, my my observation about this uh is very simple.
As you know, I don't think the White House ought to be deciding who earns what in this country, and I think this PAZAR is uh is a job that ought to be eliminated.
However, however, Mr. Obama thinks the government should be in charge of bonuses, and what has he told us?
They ain't gonna happen.
They're not gonna go to Vegas, the days of these big bonuses are over, except at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase where he likes those two guys, but everywhere else ain't gonna happen.
No whoa, whoa, way, no way, and Obama's gonna see to it.
And he got this PAZAR, Feinberg and Feinberg's gonna go out there and make sure that this rape of the American people doesn't happen and yet it did again.
Bonuses are up 17%.
Now, if Obama cannot control bank bonuses with a direct liaison to the industry called the Pazar, if he cannot control bank bonuses going up, when he's set up an office to do just that.
Why do we assume that his health care reform proposal will reduce costs or do anything that he says it's going to do?
We shouldn't.
By the way, about the health care bill.
Uh well, I gotta take a break here.
Uh uh uh but let me we got a lot to say on this.
Um so you there's three provisions in this thing to fund abortions in Obama's health care bill, three different ways, spending even more money on it than in the original Senate bill.
The CBO is refusing to score it because they're not enough information.
Obama's out there saying, Yep, yep, yep, just under a trillion dollars is the cost of my bill.
CBO says, I don't know about that.
We can't.
There's not this is this is not a piece of legislation.
It is simply a campaign document.
A campaign statement, and they're out there saying, No, no, no, no, this is just a starter.
This is just a this is our starting position here with the Republicans on Thursday at our big summit.
And even Dave and Rodham Gurgens laughing about that.
I it's not a starter.
Anyway, a brief timeout.
Your phone calls as well, lots to do on the EIB network.
Sit tight, be.
All right, we're gonna go back to the audio sound bites.
We're gonna go back, we got two of these here uh from uh July 1st of 2009 and June 30th of 2009, both from CNN.
Uh one is from uh anchor Melissa Long with the Wall Street correspondent Susan Lysovich and the anchor Betty Wynne speaking with your money host Christine Romans.
And uh the thing I want you to hear them reacting to is not that well.
Here's the news today.
The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers edged up in January as manufacturers stepped up job cuts, mass layoffs edged up in Jan.
They don't even say they're shocked.
They don't even say they're surprised.
They're just now reporting it.
Mass layoffs.
Yet just last summer we were hearing this on CNN.
Nearly half a million jobs lost during the month of June.
But is it possible to find a silver lining in all this?
We want a silver lining.
Susan Lisovich at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with more is there one?
The silver lining, if you will, is that May was revised uh the previous month, I should say, uh, was revised lower, and that was May.
Also, we have a separate report from Challenger Gray and Christmas, which shows the planned job cuts.
The announcements slowed.
And that is the fifth straight month.
So that is encouraging.
What is also high, and this is also silver lining is the first day of July starting off on a positive note.
The Dow is up 128 points, the NASDAQ is up twenty-five.
Good start.
Top act to follow, though, the second quarter rally that we saw.
CNN Info Babes, giddy over the economy last July.
Remember, mass layoffs edged up in January.
Consumer confidence at an all-time low, not seen since 1983.
Here's the next CNN example last summer.
A spring stock market rally that has been quite incredible.
Job losses are slowing.
Consumer confidence is improving.
People are feeling a little better.
They're feeling better because they're spending less, they're saving more money, they're getting back to basics.
There's a new frugality.
Hold it a minute, stop that.
Did you remember this?
This was at a time everybody was loving the fact that they were out of work, loving the fact that they were able to get closer to their families and renew their relationships with people and learn frugality.
Oh, it was all so wonderful last summer.
There was a huge rally in the stock market in the second quarter.
The stock market telling us that it thinks things are gonna get better eventually, and you're gonna see that rally.
If you are still invested in stocks, if you had faith and you were buying stocks along the way this spring, you were buying them at cheap prices, you're gonna see that rally when you open up your 401k statement.
All right.
That's a new frugality is back, but this is this is from last summer, and and I are we just what we do here is love illustrating the absolute incompetence, bias, whatever you want to call it, phoniness of the state controlled media.
Now, I got a note from a friend of mine today.
Rush, does it ever get old being right?
And I'm gonna be honest with you, my friends, it never does.
I play golf a lot With some um PGA Tour pros.
And I say, does it ever get boring?
Every shot going where you want it to go.
They smile and they say, never.
Well, my friends, I never ever get bored being right.
The reason I was asked the question was because of a series of headlines in the news today.
FDIC says number of problem banks jumped 20%, 27%.
Consumer confidence falls to a 10-month low in February.
Home prices fall in December, but annual side slide slows.
Um from CNBC, stocks likely to double dip after May.
And from Bloomberg, Harvard's Rogoff sees a bunch of sovereign defaults.
I've got every one of these stories in the stack.
Every one of them.
If you want the uh the down and dirty details, I've also got a story by a political scientist at some Ivy League school.
And I'll tell you the Secret Service better get on this guy.
He is an admitted liberal.
And this guy is as livid at Obama and the Democrat media as I've ever seen anybody.
Stay with us, my friend.
And welcome back.
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To the phones we go to Chicago.
This is uh Ed.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hi, how are you doing, Russ?
Very well, thank you.
Uh I just call make a quick comment uh about Glenn Beck.
Uh the way he's always talking about Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same, and it just kind of really uh irritates me.
But yesterday changed his tune a little bit.
He talked about how, you know, you got the ment in there and uh Mike Pantson, you know.
You know, there are some good Republicans in there.
But I I just got tired of hearing them saying it and saying it.
And it seemed like if they changed his story a little bit.
You know, he's kind of kind of like what you're saying, that they're not all the same, they're not the same, and I agree with you.
But I just got tired of listening to it.
Finally yesterday, he just uh, you know, I don't know why why he did it, but he did.
Well, you and Arnold Schwarzenegger, too.
I mean, that really irritated me too when he said uh about the Republicans being a party, you know, like you.
Uh I like it.
I like I like saying all to this garbage.
Um I I have no clue about Arnold Schwarzenegger anymore.
I I saw his uh his little appearance there on Meet the Depressed.
Um The publicers need to support the four.
It's just it's it's here's a guy with 27% approval.
Yeah.
Uh no wonder, no wonder Meet the Press wants him on TV.
He's a prototypical Republican.
It's what we all what they all want Republicans to be is uh is Arnold I I I I you give me a dilemma about about Glenn Beck, however, because um I have a policy here, and I've always had a policy that I do not comment on other people that do this.
Uh I I do not believe in media feuds.
Uh I I don't believe in in in in doing that kind of thing.
Everybody in this business has their own objective.
Uh I think I understand what people's objective in this business are from person to person to person.
I know what they want, I know what they're trying to accomplish, but I don't feel comfortable commenting on it.
Um it's just it's just a policy thing here.
I've you know, I've and I I really don't want to get into internecine battles on the with it with people on my side of things.
Um I'd rather keep my powder drive focused on people I think are the real problems, and that's liberals and republicans in name only.
Now, yeah, what?
No, I just want to say, you know, I I understand.
I just want to, you know, because like I said, every time I every time I hear him say that just makes my blood boil.
Yeah.
Well, I understand.
I understand your I understand your point.
Um well, a lot of people are not going to understand the point.
A lot of people are gonna think I'm I'm copping out here and and so forth, which I'm uh which I'm not doing.
Look, I know everybody talks about me and how I do it.
There's a reason for that, and I uh I I have to be mindful of of the position I occupy here, and I I simply if I start commenting on other people who do this, and you people have listened for a long time.
No, I don't do it.
They all comment about me, but I don't uh I've got I want to get distracted by those kinds of things.
But I will tell you something.
I this day, when I got up and saw some things that it happened, so okay, yesterday uh Obama committing a suicide with his health care proposal.
This is Suicide Tuesday.
I do not understand what Mitt Romney is doing.
Endorsing McCain.
The era of McCain is over.
And Scott Brown and this um this voting for the jobs bill, uh, this meager little fifteen billion dollar jobs bill.
I folks, I hate to tell you this, but if if you'll if you'll go back, and if you will review the tapes, the transcripts of this program, you will see you will not find me being a giant big-time pedal of a metal supporter of Scott Brown.
We're talking about a Massachusetts Republican.
Now I know he's opposed to health care, and we ought to continue to support him on that, and he's opposed to cap and trade, and he hasn't changed his mind.
In fact, there's a there's a story Scott Brown fumes over the new health care plan.
He wants no part of it, but he did go along with his jobs bill, and he did say, I hope my vote today is a strong step towards restoring bipartisanship in Washington.
I must tell you, I'm not surprised by this.
And it's gonna be a waste of energy if you get all bent out of shape and angry about.
I mean, feel free to do it if you want to, but this is not that big a surprise.
Especially when you look there, five other Republicans that joined this thing, the usual suspects.
You had Susan Collins voting for it, you had Olympia Snow, because it says jobs on it.
It's not a jobs bill at all, but it says jobs on it, and everybody wants jobs.
Uh there's not enough laser-like focus on jobs.
The problem is this isn't going to create any jobs, but it's going to give all kinds of politicians the cover to say they support efforts, create jobs.
The only thing I would ask Scott Brown is how do you say this that he said at CPAC?
My name is Scott Brown, and I'm the newly elected Republican Senator from Massachusetts.
Let me just say that one more time.
I'm the Republican senator from Massachusetts.
One Democrat said that, and I quote, there is no way in hell a Republican was going to get elected to the seat once held by Ted Kennedy.
Well, here I am.
For the big government spenders, I'm sure my election does not make them feel good at all.
But for those who are interested in restoring the real checks and balances in Washington and bringing accountability and transparency back to our government, you know, it feels wonderful.
Now he said that last Thursday.
Yesterday votes for the jobs bill and starts talking about wanting uh to restore bipartisanship in Washington.
That's not what got him elected.
And he's gonna sit there and say at CPAC, all the big government spenders, I'm sure my election doesn't make them feel good.
I think they're feeling pretty good right now on the jobs bill vote that he made.
But again, uh I'm not surprised by it.
He's from Massachusetts.
He's not, folks, he is not a down-the-line conservative, and nobody ever said that he was.
He's a far sight better than Ted Kennedy.
He's a far sight better than having a Democrat in there.
But it's and he still, you know, makes a point here with this Boston Herald story, uh, Scott Brown fumes over health plan.
He says if the Democrats try to ram their health care bill through Congress using reconciliation, they are sending a dangerous signal to the American people that they will stop at nothing to raise our taxes, increase premiums, and slash Medicare.
This is a statement read by uh his spokesman Colin Reed.
Using the nuclear option damages the concept of representative leadership and represents more of the politics as usual that voters have repeatedly rejected.
While Brown's office didn't specifically reject Obama's latest bill, there was no doubt Brown views the proposal is similar.
It's uh to earlier uh health care plans backed by Democrats, except this one's arguably worse.
And then you have uh Mitt Romney endorsing McCain.
Now he's running a r uh my little take here uh from little old me is I think I think that Mitt Romney made a grave, grave error.
Uh endorsing McCain.
Uh that's that's that this that's not the future.
I don't know why he did it.
Uh it's after all, it was McCain joining force of a Huckabee.
It screwed Mitt in West Virginia.
And then later on down in Florida with Charlie Christ.
So I think that was not wise.
It was an error.
Uh I think Scott Brown made a mistake voting for the jobs bill, but it is what it is.
And this is why, folks, I don't get close to these people.
And it's why I don't want them, you know, they're they're gonna come and go, and I'm gonna be here, so are all of us long after they come and go.
Quick phone call before we go to the break from Austin, Texas.
Anthony, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, I want to make a comment, but I'd like to ask you, of course, because this is the way I can be able to get my point across.
Rush, if you put a mouse in the same box as a snake, what would you think happened?
If I put a mouse in the same box as a snake.
What would you think happened?
The snake or a tech, because that's his next instinct.
You have a lot of people call your show, they applaud you, they praise you, they make you feel like you walk on the water when that's you think in your quick fan.
You do all this knocking about Barack Obama, holding Barack Obama in a double standard when the mayor been in office a year, and he's supposed to solve all America problems.
And Barack Obama, and I feel America heading in the right direction.
I'm not going to agree with you.
I'm not going to go along with it just to get alone, because this is who I am.
But I will say that Barack Obama is doing a great job.
It is the Republican Party that is divided in the United States of America.
And I will also say that if all these people who knock him, Hayton criticized Barack Obama.
If anything happened to Barack Obama, God have mercy on United States of America, like Jeremiah Wright says, God damn America, and I'm for real with you.
Um he hung up.
You know, there's a lot of anger out there on the left, folks.
There is a tremendous uh lot of anger out there.
I'm just now I couldn't understand everything you say, so I'm just now reading the transcription.
Have mercy on the U.S. and like Jer.
Oh, he said, he said God he did he said God D America did that.
Um and I am for real with you.
And he thinks the country's headed in the right direction.
What is he on welfare?
Was this guy have a house he couldn't afford?
Is this guy being kept in the house he can't afford?
I I don't know how you can think America's headed in the right direction unless you're feeding off your neighbors.
We'll be back.
All right, Mike, let's let's head back here to the uh top of the audio sound business as I get my roster in order here.
There we go.
All right, now, Scott Brown, folks.
I look, I predicted that this was gonna happen.
I predicted as much.
I just I had a little hope that it was gonna take a little longer for Scott Brown to succumb to Potomac fever and all this um this bipartisan talk uh and so forth.
But I'd say I this you know I like Mitt Romney, but I think he's risking his career over uh uh over a guy endorsing McCain, uh, who is so out of step with what's going on right now.
Uh I it's it's uh I mean well McCain's he's always conservative when he's running for re-election in uh in Arizona.
Well, you know that the Tea Parties have produced wave of conservatism that has swept Republicans in name only aside.
Um and and that being said, I I understand Palin endorsing McCain.
She's got no choice.
Loyalty, plus if she doesn't, the media would cream, oh, he's good enough to be president, but you won't endorse him to be senator.
Uh and it's understandable Romney would endorse Brown, but I don't understand Romney endorsing McCain.
I just don't think it's gonna fly.
Uh um.
These these endorsements um unnecessary.
What is there to gain by this?
Well, look, it's unfortunate, but people are weaving themselves out of the process um all the while engaging in this kind of behavior.
So it and in one sense, you know, it has a cleansing um aspect to it.
Bob in Hollywood, great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh show.
Yeah, hey, Rush.
I'm a little upset.
This, you know, this this Romney thing is news to me, but the thing I was gonna call about before is is you know, this closure vote, it's a reminder that we cannot get too excited about the seats simply changing letters from D's to Rs in November.
You know, the GOP succumbing to any degree of this uh what I would call McCainsian regressive syndrome is just poison to a conservative Renaissance.
Now, Scott Brown's election may have driven this runaway truck into the gravel for the time being, but buddy, we got to do an 18-point turn here, and it's a long road back.
That's an excellent point.
And I want to remind people of something.
What there is a conservative ascendancy out there, and it is happening within the Republican Party.
And that's where it ought to remain, and that's where the ascendancy should continue to grow.
And I want people to remember it took Ronald Reagan three times to get the Republican nomination.
It took him three times and over eight years to do it.
Now, these kinds of things do not happen overnight, and they don't, and and they don't happen just because there is a fervent strong desire for it to happen.
It has to happen because of a bunch of people with the same principles and objectives aligning within the structure of, say, this Republican Party and taking it over.
And that's if that doesn't happen, all the rest of this is academic.
Right.
And look at the retiring rhinos.
Let's start there in the Senate.
Brown, Bond, Greg, Boinevich, who's, you know, and then and then the guys, other guys that are up.
Who's going to step in and challenge a Vitter or a Shelby or an Isaacson or a Murkowski or Grassley?
I mean, I I just I'm afraid Rush, that we're not going to get the kind of politicians up there on Capitol Hill that can wear your sack, if you will, you know, with that document of negative liberties in hand, you know, that document that appears radical only to these DC compassionites and their red carpet professors circled jerk media penages only because we've gone so far off course for so long.
I just don't know if they're going to be able to do it, man.
Well, let me ask you a penetrating host question.
If they can't do it, who's going to do it?
Well, that's just it.
I mean, you know, we're we're kind of at the mercy of of this next round of GOP folks that get in there.
You know, I mean, you can't go, I mean, we can't clone you and have you take over all, you know, however many seats we need.
No, and it's not, but it all this is not going to happen in one election.
Of course not.
But I mean, this is key right here.
I mean, this, you know, God, this Romney supporting McCain now.
I mean, hey, you know, hey, it's 2010.
It's good that it happened, right?
Okay, here's somebody else weeding themselves out.
Yeah.
These kinds of things.
He has no chance in 2012 now.
In fact, I'm I'm really pushing Bachman and uh Tom McClintock out here in California.
Yeah, yeah.
And of course, Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll.
Yeah, Ron Paul.
Don't don't give up out.
Look at nobody's ever gonna get perfect.
Look at the Democrats for crying out loud now.
We've got up until Scott Brown, they had sixty votes in the Senate, and they still couldn't come to an agreement on the big stuff that they all want.
They couldn't come to agreement on health care.
They couldn't come to an agreement on cap and trade.
They couldn't come to an agreement on all of the big agenda items.
Um they they got they got the stimulus, which was um, you know, early on with uh with Obama, uh and his cabinet level people and the and the czar are doing a lot of things to advance their their radicalness uh behind the scenes outside the legislative process.
But even them, and so many people look at the Democrats as invincible and never make a mistake.
They always win.
They've got the media on their side.
Look at them.
They are a collection of laughing stocks right now over this.
I mean, as I said, even David Rodham Gurgen is laughing at them on this latest attempt at a health care bill.
Let me find that sound bite.
It's coming up very soon.
I've got it here.
Where is it?
It's where the hell is it?
I can't find it.
Don't tell me it's on the last freaking page.
I'm not gonna find it in time.
Um, now I can't find it, period.
But I know I just read it here on the um on the soundbite rough.
At any rate, my my point in all of this is there's a way to do this that is positive, uplifting, inspiring, as opposed to negative dividing, tearing down and and so forth.
This, you know, uh I just don't think that running around with a bunch of pitchforks essentially is uh is the way this is this is going to happen in a in a successful way.
But look at I realize, my friends, I hear from you, I hear from about ten of you fifty times a day.
The Republicans suck, the Democrats suck, everybody sucks, and I'm starting to suck because I don't see that everybody sucks.
That ten of you people write me fifty times a day.
Um I I know how you uh I know how you feel about it, but I I'm I'm I'm not gonna sit here and say that you suck because you are in my audience.
You do represent a challenge.
But instead of sitting there and writing that everybody sucks, and sitting there and saying everybody's wrong and do this, why don't you people go do something?
Why don't you go do something?
Back away from your computer screen and telling everybody everybody else sucks and go show us how it's done.
Folks, it has been just one year.
I'm not going to sit here and preside over a bunch of people committing suicide on our side.
After one year of profound advancement and success, we're in the first inning here, gang, or we're in the first quarter if you'd prefer a football analogy.
And we don't have the umpires in either game on our side.
I'm talking about the media.
We're in the first inning here.
It's the World Series.
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